> Are you sure that this is really more consistent ? Dont forget: Wizards 
for
> instance are a JFace-specific kind of thing and i always thought the
> application model itself should be independent of SWT, JFace. Or do you
> think of a more abstract way of integration and if yes how this could 
look
> like?

If the model had extended to Wizards in e4, that would have saved another 
headache in the product we are just releasing. (I still vote for help as 
#1!)
The product is the deployment tool for our J2EE application. I wanted a 
wizard where the first page asked how many database servers, reporting 
servers, and application servers are in the deployment. And then I wanted 
one page for each server requested. I could find no way of doing this with 
the JFace provided Wizard and ended up having to do my own one.
I think that if we had a model based wizard, then I probably could have 
altered the model in mid-course, and have the UI adapt to that. I could 
have rendered the UI I wished without having to develop it all myself.

I'm not going to speak to consistency, or abstract appropriateness. But I 
just wanted to chime in with a good practical example of how having this 
would have made it easier to use e4 in production.

Cheers,

Jo

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Jo Grant
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OpenPages install and config 
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